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Re:Best Linux Laptop in 2020? on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:22PM (#22121607)
I jumped off a cliff for a cheap Black Friday HP-based Chromebook (i3 with 16GB of RAM)

For my day-to-day Linux needs it has been great. I get all my apps/streaming through the play store, and all major SW for Linux works for my coding (VS Code, GIMP, Android Studio).

The current downside: I can run vms on the box (but I likely could run Docker...maybe?), But there's SSH for that.

Mainly it's a drag that the mouse-lock feature hasn't been implemented. So I can't play Minecraft. XD

Re:Best Linux Laptop in 2020? on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:19PM (#22121570)
It's your software needs that are really important.

What distro?

Do you need virtualization?

Are you looking to just have access to bash and unix-like tools?

Windows and Chromebooks fill most of my software needs for Linux... I push whatever else to a cloud, or switch to a more dedicated tower/rig for horsepower.

Re:Weblite-Go – A simple webserver written in Go on Thursday April 27, 2017 @05:49PM (#14215042)
It's not. It's extended from that.

However, that code won't deal with other things like changing the port, having a built-in index, or having the server run for a discrete amount​ of files to serve.

Also, go is no different than Java: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/jre/api/net/httpserver.... The server just allows it to be stand alone as an application.

Re:Weblite-Go – A simple webserver written in Go on Thursday April 27, 2017 @03:14PM (#14213959)
I shared the link, since it was hosting webm based videos like a champ. I figured Fro wouldn't mind :)

The old solution we had been trying was weblite, and that needs all the user-content data to be manually added to weblite. Now I get to be lazy, cross platform, and have stand alone binaries ;)

Re:Dade Murphy's Home – Google Maps on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:51AM (#10224753)
As seen @ 1:22:53 in Hackers.

The Great Debate: X86/“The Memory Sinkhole” vs. Existing SMM Exploits

I wanted to bring the table old sources from 2008/2009 regarding SMM flaws/rootkits. I give major props to Domas, and I would just like to bring up further discussion which I blame him for starting (:1) "A New Breed of Rootkit: The System Management Mode (SMM) Rootkit" - https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-08/bh-usa-08-archive.html -...

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Re:Look Ma, no OS on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @10:44PM (#9496322)
Is it me or is the wrong word being used (0.o)? See -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel
Re:FOSS Tools for C programming you cannot live without? on Friday November 14, 2014 @07:43AM (#8606852)
vi and/or vim elitists... I've always have used nano, but it seems that's not good enough for CentOS/RHEL guys.
I guess we can't Forget(sic) About Dre? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFcv5Ma8u8k [Explict Version]
Re:Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad on Friday May 09, 2014 @08:05PM (#7723930)
Also: "Dringend lets you build and run your application wherever you are in the world" should be starred: "Dringend lets you build and run your application wherever you are in the world * " * Network connectivity required.

I'm pretty sure a jerk would jump in a Faraday cage and cite how they couldn't use the app.

Re:Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad on Friday May 09, 2014 @08:02PM (#7723922)
+ Developing on iOS directly.

- https://www.google.com/search?num=30&q=define+integrated+dev... ==> IDE usually means it is standalone. This project is a wrapper for remote Xcode.

Kudos on the work. I was TOTALLY misled thinking I could dev right on the device (see Terminal IDE on Android...). $10 for a remote wrapper is too rich for my blood.

Re:The Case Against ISP Tolls on Thursday April 24, 2014 @05:05PM (#7642985)
They should use classic Cable TV vs. Local Broadcasters tactics: Block all IPs from Comcast and force them to pay access to your content...which happens to be the exact amount they want for the Tolls.

If we consumers have to pay to access to content why shouldn't ISPs?

C Programming Question: Cross Operating System, Large File IO?

Does anyone know if there is a decent method to perform cross operating system file I/O for large files (greater than 2GB) that works well on Windows,BSD,Linux,OSX.<p>POSIX's open,read,write,close is great and works on all except Windows. I have found CreateFile,ReadFile,WriteFile, but this is a totally different format in style and data types.<p>Thanks!

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"...at the top of my browser." == "top of my Skype Window."

To avoid any confusion: they were NOT in my web browsers.

Skype and Microsoft man-in-the-middle chats to give targeted ads

TL;DR: I sent a friend a link to Kotaku that had the word pizza, and a Dominos ad showed up magically at the top of my browser. I disabled my settings not knowing these are enabled by default.Long version: Today I was surfing Kotaku for kicks and started laughing as I was skipping through the YouTube video / article about using a Red Baron Pizza Coupon that was 17 years old. (Link:...

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